Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team at present is going in high gear, but Coach Samborski has found his chief trouble to be guarding against overconfidence. This is the only thing that may prevent the Yearlings from going into the Yale game unbeaten. Today's game will be a severe test, for Worcester has a strong aggregation, but the Freshmen should come through unscathed...
...extant, the Graf and the decommissioned Los Angeles, at Lakehurst. Of the rest ten never left the drawing board. 25 were lost by storm and accident, six by causes unknown, 21 were dismantled, 46 were wrecked in the War, eleven were surrendered to the Allies, seven were sabotaged to prevent surrender...
Nevertheless, moderate Mr. Sibley could not prevent the convention from turning into a rousing Republican rally. The one successful effort on the part of the "constructive" minority to give the meeting a semblance of significance was a strategem concocted by Chicago's John William O'Leary, head of the Machinery & Allied Products Institute. He hastily released the Chamber's plan for a national survey to determine "our re-employment possibilities with a degree of accuracy which cannot be equaled in any other way." This was the first official reply of organized business to President Roosevelt...
Three days before the Italian army marched into Addis Ababa, Secretary Hull ordered the American minister to leave the legation and go to the British legation. The American minister disregarded the order, which was issued solely to prevent such an eventuality, and "bravely" defended his post. Immediately, American newspapers took up the cry. Why must American nationals (long since warned to get out of Ethiopia) run to the British? And why wasn't the entire National Guard sent to surround the legation and prove that the United States had as great an interest in Lake Tana as Great Britain...
...Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church in Detroit, accompanied by her grandfather who stoked the church fires, dusted the pews. First organist at St. Paul's was Sara Angelina Waffle, who on severe winter days had her old-fashioned pump organ pushed up next to the stove to prevent her fingers from becoming numb. Frequently in the course of a sermon Organist Waffle would sidle off her bench to put a stick of wood on the fire...